Calendar
Other Events (February 21 through February 25)
Thursday, February 21
- 12:00 AM Interview Date: Accenture
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Programming in R
- 12:15 PM EAAF Informal Roundtable Lunch Discussion 2/21/2013: Following the Footprints: Current Issues in the Antiquities Trade, Looted Sites, and International Responses
- 12:30 PM Changing Welfare States: A luncheon discussion with Anton Hemerijck
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to SAS
- 3:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to SPSS
- 4:00 PM Coffee and Conversation with Rabbi Beyo
- ECE Seminar with Wooram Lee
- 5:00 PM Israel: Between a Fundamentalist and a Progressive Identity
- Tavlithon
- 6:00 PM Janet McKee on Vegan Healing and Spirituality
Friday, February 22
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - R – C/C++ Programming
- 12:00 PM Dog Therapy
- Medical Grand Rounds: EBM: Evidence Based Mentorship
- 12:30 PM Innovation and Implementation: Bringing new health technologies to the developing world
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Information Visualization
- 6:00 PM Alcohol on the Brain: The Science of Booze
- 8:15 PM Being Frum/Orthodox and Queer
Saturday, February 23
- 8:30 AM Customs and Laws of Purim and Pesach
- 12:00 PM OVERWiNTER w/ APiSOCIAL SATURDAYS: presented by FESTOONiNG // The Inflatable Beehive: Urban Hex // Honeybees & Community in the Urban Landscape
- 9:00 PM Hillel Purim Party
Sunday, February 24
- 2:00 PM SAR Junior Pinning Ceremony
- 3:30 PM Jewmba
Monday, February 25
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- SPH Convocation Speaker: Become “Dauntless Doers”Julie Gerberding inhabits a world of long-winded conference calls and consensus-building meetings. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been known to interject, “people are dying. Let’s step up. Let’s get the decision made. Let’s move on.” But in offering advice to School of Public Health […]
- Chinese Students Adjust to American EducationLili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And […]
- BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edXBU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform that shares the University’s commitment to using technology’s benefits for students on campus as well as off. The partnership will give BU professors more flexibility in designing their courses and discerning which educational methods work best with students. Membership obligates BU to offer […]
- “Find That Next Bill Cosby”People outside Walter Brown Arena must have heard the roar of the crowd inside Saturday morning when Bill Cosby told the 2013 School of Education graduates, “Don’t you dare accept that you’re teachers because you can’t do anything else.” Sporting a tasseled Terrier baseball cap and wriggling out of his academic robe to reveal a […]
- The Sights and Sounds of Commencement 2013After the tents come down and the chairs are folded, the sights and sound of Commencement 2013 live on as part of BU’s long-standing Commencement tradition. These are some of the best moments from Sunday’s ceremony. […]
